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❓ Common questions: homework, AI marking, the Markbook and Skill Builders
Short answers on homework, AI marking, the Markbook and Skill Builders. Tap a question to open it.
Photos (JPG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC), PDFs, including multi-page scans, and Word files (.docx, or a Google Doc downloaded as .docx). Typed working in a Word file is marked as typed. If a file can't be read, the student is told what to do instead.
Yes. When students hand in uploads, AI marking is on by default: each hand-in is marked against the mark scheme straight away and waits in the Marking inbox for you to check. You can switch it off for a homework in Set work or Edit. Free classes don't include AI marking.
Straight away, labelled "AI mark — your teacher may adjust it". Once you confirm or change it, it says "Checked by your teacher". "See your marked work" shows the student's own pages with ticks, crosses and mark codes, and downloads them as a PDF.
Yes. On My homework they tick the questions to hand in now and add the rest later, up to the deadline. Each question is marked when it comes in.
Yes, unless the homework is locked. A resubmission is labelled as one for the student, in the Marking inbox and in the Markbook (an R badge), because they have seen the feedback. The first attempt is the homework mark, unless you tick "Count best attempt instead" in the column's ⋮ menu.
Under a marked question, students can try an unseen question on the same sub-topic and difficulty, marked straight away by AI. It adds nothing to your marking: there is no inbox card and the homework mark doesn't change. The Markbook just shows how many they tried.
Yes. Click a cell with handed-in work: the window shows the same review as the Marking inbox, with the mark points, the marked pages, each question's mark and "Agree" (one tap to accept the proposed mark), and a "Next to review" button.
It is the AI mark, or your own mark once you give one. A student's self-rating is shown beside it but not blended in; it is only used when there is no AI mark.
In the column's ⋮ menu, choose "Mark as complete…" to tick students, or "All checked" to complete every handed-in piece with no mark. It shows as Complete, is left out of averages and gets no reminder emails.
Yes. "Edit assessment" in the column's ⋮ menu (or Edit on the dashboard) opens the full Set work form, filled in: classes, dates, questions, uploads, AI marking, rubric and grading scale. It works for Record marks only columns too.
On Set work, choose Kind → "Record marks only (Markbook)". Give it a title, a date, the class and how it is graded (and, if you like, what it is marked out of), then press Create: the class's Markbook opens so you can type each student's marks or grades. Students are not sent anything.
Yes. Choose a grading scale when you set the work: %, IB 1–7, IGCSE 9–1 or MYP criteria A–D. If you enter only a grade, only the grade is shown; if you enter a %, the grade is worked out from it.
Set each task's criterion levels (0–8) as usual. For the report, click a student's MYP A–D cell in the Markbook and choose one best-fit final level per criterion (a suggestion from recent work is offered). The four add up to a total out of 32, which gives the MYP grade 1–7. If a criterion has no final level, the total shows n/a. How MYP maths grades work explains it for students and parents.
Yes. On homework marked on MYP criteria, students see a closed line, Check your work against the criteria. They tick what they did for each criterion the task assesses and can add a short reflection. You see it beside your mark when you open their cell in the Markbook. It never changes a mark, and you can switch it off in Customise (MYP self-check).
Yes. In Report-Writing Help on your dashboard, open MYP comments from your final levels. Once you have set final levels in the Markbook, it drafts a comment for each student from our comment bank, by criterion and level, with next steps. Edit any comment, then Copy all for the class.
On the teacher dashboard, Skill Builders tab, pick a class, 5 to 20 questions per student and a date. Each student gets their own set: their Red and Amber sub-topics first, then recent lessons, then a mix of what the class has covered. You can preview each student's set first, or target their weakest maths skill instead.
Yes. When you send a Skill Builder from the class page, tick "Pick each student's skill". Within the topic, each student gets the skill they most need, from their markbook colours, recent wrong answers, hinge question and exit ticket answers and questions due back for revision. The results grid shows which skill each student got and why. A school or class can switch the tick off in Customise.
Yes. On a class page, Homework tab, turn on Weekly Skill Builders. Each week, on the day and time you choose, every student gets their own sets: one on something recently covered, one on their weakest topic and one to review, from topics you have already taught. Preview next week to swap, remove or skip it; holidays on your term dates are skipped. It is off until you turn it on.
A card at the top of the Skill Builders page. Focus picks a student's weakest sub-topics first, then what the class covered recently; Stretch gives harder questions on topics they are already good at.
A student with little mastery data sees "Start with a placement check": about 12 questions from across the course, handed in like any Skill Builder. "I haven't learnt this yet" leaves a sub-topic blank. There is no score: the results set where each sub-topic starts on the mastery grid.
A Topics | Maths skills switch on the Skill Builders page. It shows the student's weakest skill, such as rounding or rearranging, with 5-question sets on that skill mixed across topics, and quick 8-question drills that are marked instantly.
Yes. In the Skill Builders tab, Question analysis has three views: Questions, Mark points and Maths skills. Mark points shows method, accuracy and reasoning marks for the class and each student, and the commonest reasons marks were lost.
A streak counts the weeks in a row with at least one set handed in. Badges are for a first hand-in, a first pass, full marks, 10 sets, 5 sub-topics and 3 weeks in a row. Retakes don't count.
Yes. Set work, the Worksheet builder, the test builder, Make a lesson and students' Build your own test all use one sub-topic picker, with a search box, question counts and "Whole unit".
Yes. Free lessons has a ready-to-teach lesson for each IB Maths topic: editable PowerPoint slides and teacher notes with timings, free to download with a teacher account. The worksheet in three levels and its answers come with school plans and the teacher trial. Make a lesson builds one for your own class from the full question bank.
Yes. Themed maths has free lesson packs through the year, from Ada Lovelace Day, Halloween and Fibonacci Day to Pi Day, listed by month, plus start-of-term icebreakers and end-of-term escape rooms, quizzes and puzzles, each with a starter, a main activity, an extension, worked answers and a printable student sheet. Every question is original.
Yes. Knowledge organisers are one-page summaries of every topic (definitions, formulas, a worked example and common mistakes), and classroom posters are free printable posters for the classroom wall, including maths jokes. Both are free PDFs in the Resources menu.
On a class page that follows the scheme of work, press Do Now beside Starter. It builds a 4, 6 or 9-question retrieval grid from the class's starters: a third on the last lesson, a third on the last week or two and a third on earlier topics. Project it, press Shuffle for a fresh grid, show the answers, or print it on A4 with the answers on page 2.
Yes. When you show questions on the board (lesson slides, a plenary, a hinge question or exit ticket, the live game's present view, the Do Now grid or a graph), press Tools in the top bar. The timer counts down (30 seconds to 10 minutes, or your own time), counts up, or runs think, pair, share, with an optional chime at the end. Pop out puts it in its own small window that stays visible over your slides. Pick a name chooses a student at random from the class list, or from names you type, with no repeats until everyone has had a turn; nothing is saved. Press T for the timer and N for a name. You can switch the tools off on the Customise page.
Yes, for MYP years 1 to 5 (standard and extended in MYP 4 and 5). Open MYP worksheets in the Resources menu, or the link in Create lesson, and pick a year, a topic and a criterion focus (A to D). Each worksheet has a learning intention, a prior-knowledge starter, a worked example, practice in three levels, a real-life question, a reflection and an exit question, with an answers page. The practice follows the criterion you choose (or all four): pattern investigations for B, explaining, changing representations and correcting mistakes for C, and real-life modelling for D, each with a marking guide in plain words. Questions come from our checked question bank and from questions written by AI whose numbers and answers were checked; they are marked "AI-written, checked". You can edit the wording, get new numbers, add your school logo, plan a unit (one worksheet per topic), save it privately, duplicate it and share it with your school.
Questions a student got wrong in practice, Skill Builders, auto-marked homework or the daily question come back about 3, 7 and 21 days later, up to 5 a day, in Revisit today at the top of the My mistakes page. Getting a question right twice retires it. Students can turn it off there.
Yes. Exam season has free plans for each course: 12 days of mock prep, a final exam countdown checklist, IA rescue week, a 30-day New Year challenge, a back-to-school start and a results day what-next page. Teachers can share each plan with a class.
Each DP plan has 32 weeks a year. The extra weeks are extra teaching lessons that take a sub-topic further, not review weeks. A class part-way through the year stays where it was; extra lessons in weeks it has already passed are listed as "added — not yet taught".
Yes. Students can switch between SL and HL, AA and AI from My profile or My progress, once every 90 days. They stay in their class and keep their homework and mastery history. Teachers can change it any time from the class list, and get a short note on the dashboard when a student changes.
A topic nobody has marked yet takes its colour from the student's own marked practice: at least 3 marked answers on it, with recent answers counting most. It shows as "From practice" to the student (My progress), their teacher and their parents. When a student joins a class, these colours are the starting point; any mark the teacher sets replaces them.
Yes. Open Customise from your account menu (teachers: also the teacher menu, or the ⚙ next to a class's name). Students can hide menu items, celebrations, leaderboards and streaks, hide their nickname on leaderboards, and change text size and motion. Teachers can also switch features on or off for each class, hide or pin menu items, and rearrange their dashboard with Edit layout. A Head of Department can switch a feature off for the whole school; it then shows as "Locked by your school". Switching something off never changes what your plan includes.
Press "Watch the solution" on a question on any DP unit page (for example SL AA Unit 1) or in Mastery Review. You get an animated walkthrough with narration, built from the mark scheme.
Yes. Ten unofficial practice papers in the new format (SL 75 marks, HL 100; our HL Paper 3 papers are 50 marks in 1 hour) are on Prediction Papers for IB subscribers. See what is changing in the new syllabus.
Type a code in the "Have a referral code?" box on the trial, plans or school plans page, or open a /r/CODE link. Ambassadors get a free year in return for a couple of clearly labelled posts a month. See also refer a friend.
Yes: the Grapher (short address graph.mathrevision.co.uk) plots functions, sliders and tables, fits any model with ~ and explains R², residuals and each parameter. It is free with no sign-in; there are step-by-step guides and graphs of common functions. Export can give you code to embed a graph on a class page or blog.
Yes: the free maths tools (Resources or More menu, Maths tools) cover the normal and inverse normal, binomial and Poisson distributions, chi-squared and t-tests, confidence intervals, standard deviation, averages, correlation, matrices, complex numbers and vectors. Each shows the working, a graph, a worked example, common mistakes and the keystrokes for your own calculator.
See our comparison pages: Revision Village, Save My Exams, RevisionDojo and IB maths IA tools, side by side. Every claim about another site is linked to its source and dated.
Signed in as a student, open Student reviews and press Leave a review: a rating from 1 to 5 and, if you like, a sentence. Your words are only shown if you tick the box to share them (under 16s need a parent's OK), and you can withdraw a shared review at any time.
From blank page to a submitted Modelling IA in six steps, with per-paragraph AI feedback along the way.
The right test for your question, its conditions checked and the working shown — with prompts for your own interpretation.
A 60-second review of the whole IA against all five IB criteria (A–E, /20).
Every IA page has the same six-step strip: Idea → Plan → Data → Model → Write-up → Feedback. A tick shows the steps you have visited.
Mark one of our annotated explorations blind, then compare with the reference marks and your department.
Mark every sub-topic 🔴 Red / 🟠 Amber / 🟢 Green so you know what to revise next, and get your teacher's weekly homework in the same place.
Ctrl+V to paste a screenshot.Grab a ManageBac-ready unit-plan markdown that covers all 19 DP planner subcategories.
/SLAAUnit1.html), use the floating 📋 Copy for ManageBac button in the bottom-right. Teachers only.One click zips a ManageBac-ready brief, print-ready questions, markscheme and a step-by-step attach guide.
brief.md from the ZIP and paste it into the assignment description.questions.html to the assignment (visible to students).markscheme.html to the Teacher files section (hidden from students).One page owns the whole class: log this week's topics and mark every student. Weekly homework itself is now set from your class page — see Auto-homework, below.
Recap (each student's own weak Red/Amber topics) + new content (what the class covered in the last 14 days), each task a real AI-written question — not just a topic name. Works the same way for IGCSE, DP and A-Level classes. Nothing goes to students until you publish.
class.html for that class.Ctrl+V to paste a screenshot (useful on Chromebooks — Shift+Ctrl+Show-Windows takes a screenshot, then paste it here).See it step by step with screenshots, from Set work to the Marking inbox.